Chapter 167 — Two Unlucky Experts [Begging for Monthly Tickets]
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Wei Zhao turned and walked to Shen Yushu's Beetle, got in, started it up, and drove off in the direction of the villa district.
This was a stretch of national highway in poor condition, with no streetlights at night, so few cars ever passed through. He had been here all this time and not seen a single vehicle — no fear of anyone discovering him.
When Wei Zhao reached the villa, the place was ablaze with light. He did not put the car back in Shen Yushu's garage, but parked it in the yard of Gu Mengyao's villa.
Wei Zhao happened to have no car of his own to drive, so for the time being he would borrow the car of that girl Shen Yushu. He imagined she would not object.
Perhaps someone had heard the car pulling into the yard, because the villa's front door opened — and the one who opened it was neither Gu Mengyao nor Shen Yushu, but Uncle Qing.
"Mr. Lin, you're back." Uncle Qing nodded to Wei Zhao.
"Uncle Qing, you're still here?" Wei Zhao was somewhat surprised. He had gone off to deal with two Yellow Rank experts and run all the way out to the middle of the national highway; it must have taken him nearly an hour. Yet Uncle Qing had still not gone home.
As a rule, once Uncle Qing had delivered Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu to the villa, he left straight away.
"Mr. Gu is here as well. Do come in, Mr. Lin," Uncle Qing said to Wei Zhao.
"Oh? Uncle Chu is here too?" What surprised Wei Zhao even more was that Gu Pengzhan would come to the villa so late.
Wei Zhao followed Uncle Qing into the villa, and there were Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu, heads lowered, sitting on the big sofa the very picture of obedient children, while on the smaller sofa to one side Gu Pengzhan, face clouded, was lecturing them about something. Only when he saw Wei Zhao enter did he squeeze out a smile. "Xiao Yi, you're back. Come, sit down."
Gu Mengyao gave Wei Zhao a somewhat aggrieved look. Shen Yushu had been right: Daddy's attitude toward him was unbelievably good — so good it was almost excessive, better than the treatment she herself received. When she came home she got a scolding, yet when Wei Zhao came home Daddy was all smiles.
If she did not know her father's character so well, she would have thought Wei Zhao was his bastard son.
If not for Wei Zhao, would she have been in a bad enough mood to go drinking? And besides... she had not drunk so much as a single sip.
Yet the treatment she and Wei Zhao received was worlds apart. She truly could not fathom what Daddy was thinking, being so kind to an idle, philandering playboy. If she told him how Wei Zhao went around flirting with other women at school and in bars, would Daddy still treat him this way?
Of course, Gu Mengyao only thought it. These were words she could not say, and would have been too embarrassed to say.
"Xiao Yi, thank you for your trouble. Tonight's business is all thanks to you," Gu Pengzhan said with a smile.
"It was nothing, Uncle Chu." Wei Zhao smiled. "I didn't really do anything."
"These two children simply will not listen. Old Chen entrusted his daughter to me, and I have not raised her well, letting her run about making trouble with Yao Yao..." Gu Pengzhan said. "If you had not been there, I truly do not know what might have happened."
"Ha, Uncle Chu, tonight's business really isn't Miss Gu's fault, or Xiao Shu's." Looking at the aggrieved Gu Mengyao and the utterly indifferent Shen Yushu, Wei Zhao explained to Gu Pengzhan.